Reading + Leeds Festival: Sexist?
Much has been made of the issue surrounding a doctored Reading and Leeds Festival posters, edited to show only the female/partially-female acts performing at this year’s festival. In the edit,….
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Interview: Hookworms “It’s totally disappointing how many people still casually use “gay” as a negative term, or say something ‘ironically’ racist”
Hookworms are a Leeds-based psych quintet, who are known only by initials as a way of separating being in one of the best bands the country has to offer and….
Live Review: This Wild Life – Leeds Beckett Students Union, Leeds – 3/10/14.
The Californian duo’s set lacked the guile, intimacy and the vulnerability that was expected. Maybe I’m getting old, but the current trend of wearing woolly hates in near-solar temperatures seems….
Interview: Eagulls – Longitude 2014
Playing the Whelan’s 25 Stage as part of this year’s Longitude bill, Leeds post-punk outfit, Eagulls brought their unique dimensions to Marlay Park. We caught up with the band just….
Video Game Violence is only a Convenient Scapegoat
Just a few days ago, a 61-year-old teacher of Spanish was brutally stabbed to death in front of her class in Leeds. The 15-year-old boy who is suspected of committing….
Reading & Leeds Reveal Over 50 New Acts
Reading and Leeds festival have today announced over 50 new additions to their line up including the Horrors, the Kooks and Young Guns. The festival, which this year boasts four….
Reading And Leeds Announce More Bands
Reading and Leeds festival have tonight announced their next wave of acts, including co-headliners Queens of the Stone Age and Paramore. They will be joining the previously announced Arctic Monkeys….
Arctic Monkeys To Headline Reading and Leeds
If the previous announcements weren’t enough to entice you to grab your Reading or Leeds ticket as soon as possible, then maybe this might compel you to move your curser….
Single Review: Wild Beasts – ‘Wanderlust’
When I found out that Wild Beasts had returned with a new single, I entered in what can only be described as an uncontrollable fit of excitement. With their graceful….
Blink 182 To Headline Reading And Leeds 2014
It has tonight been announced that American pop punk band Blink 182 will headline Reading and Leeds festival 2014. The announcement came as a part of the first wave of….